Which came first, Trump or the internet? Once again, music was the canary in the coal mine for digital disruption. Music has been disrupted, we’re at the end of the line of technology, we’ve got an on demand system where you can get everything in the history of recorded music for one low price. (As […]

Yesterday marked the beginning of Apple’s World Wide Developer Conference, aka “WWDC.” The keynote was the best since the passing of Steve Jobs, because Tim Cook is much better in front of the camera and he let Craig Federighi, a natural, quarterback most of the presentation. These used to be a big deal. We always […]

One generation got old One generation got soul “Volunteers” Jefferson Airplane It’s bottom up. And the oldsters have got no clue. I found this story in my Twitter feed: “TikTok Teens and K-Pop Stans Say They Sank Trump Rally – Did a successful prank inflate attendance expectations for President Trump’s rally in Tulsa, Okla?” But […]

It’s Napster. What do we know about Napster? It happened as a result of technological change. Same deal here, but instead of high speed connections, it’s smartphone cameras. In the late nineties and early 2000s, only college students had high speed connections. The public came along later. Same deal with smartphones. Sure, some had them […]